The long road back to owning my own business
Find official press release here A few years ago, I wrote publicly about my debt story. Over a quarter of a million dollars, no assets, and a choice: go bankrupt or pay it back the hard way. I chose the hard way. Not because I’m a martyr, but because I’d been burned...
The copywriter’s guide to getting gloriously lost
A stolen passport and all my money taken at midnight at Paris’s Gare du Nord railway station. A kindly stranger, French police, a gorgeous blonde diplomat (think of him as a Hemsworth look-a-like) in an open-top Mercedes driving me down the Champs-Élysées the next...
My whirlwind time with MasterJack
I left my home in Scotland in August last year to visit my partner on his working holiday in Australia. We planned three months of travelling down Australia’s east coast, and then I would be home in time for Christmas and my 25th birthday. Well, it’s almost a year...
What I learned at the NZ Social Media Forum
Last month, Lisa and I attended the Brightstar NZ Social Media Forum, chaired by Loren Tomlinson of The Social Collective and sponsored by yours truly (for clarification: MasterJack, not me). The two-day conference featured presentations from various social media...